Author: Dr. William Rassman

Sun exposure directly on the grafts after any hair transplant is never a good idea. UV light negatively impacts healing and can burn the skin edge of the grafts. People often forget that these grafts, which are taken from the back of the head, have never been exposed to the sun for your entire life. You should wear a hat, and even after it has healed, you should use UV protection.

Not happening. Cloning has a history, and when used in mice they died back in the early 1990s. These hairs were cloned in a petri dish and placed into hairless mice. The hairs grew in all directions, many ingrown, causing infections that killed the mice.

How long after am I able to trim the implanted section so that the transplant does not look noticeable. I also have redness in the recipient area, why is that?

Most of my patients can trim their hair or get a hair cut in 2 weeks after an FUE. The presence of redness on the skin is either infection or just a histamine reaction in your skin. Your doctor can tell you which it is.

You have what is called traction alopecia and the only treatment for this is hair transplantation. A good doctor in this field needs to determine if you have enough donor hair to perform a hair transplant to cover the bald areas. Most people have enough donor hair.

The use of general anesthesia for a hair transplant is not a good idea because a hair transplant takes many hours and general anesthesia risks go up the longer you are under it, plus the costs would be very, very high. The use of local anesthesia like you dentist uses, is the only way to do this. Pain should not be a problem as most people feel nothing once the local anesthetic has been administered.

Hi,I m 46 years old and a norwood class 6/7.I have atrial fibrillation and take a beta blocker and warfarin,is it possible to have a hair transplant(if a good candidate)with this condition or is it not an option?many thanks.

It depends on the individual patient as well as the the individual doctor who may or may not consider surgery. You would likely need clearance from your cardiologist as well. In other words each patient and case is different. We have performed surgery on patients with atrial fibrillation that is controlled as well as patients who are on warfarin.

Genetic hair loss is not like a straight line if you plotted it out. You inherit a pattern and at different ages some hairs will undergo miniaturization and eventually fall out. So yes, hair loss can accelerate, then slow down and then accelerate again. If you are treating it, you may be treating a stop and go process. Many of my patients tell me that even when they take a drug like finasteride, they may start losing their hair in spirts and stops.